{"id":7353,"date":"2026-02-09T13:05:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prisonersadvice.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7353"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:05:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:05:46","slug":"prison-reform-trust-publishes-new-bromley-briefings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prisonersadvice.org.uk\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/09\/prison-reform-trust-publishes-new-bromley-briefings\/","title":{"rendered":"PRISON REFORM TRUST PUBLISHES NEW BROMLEY BRIEFINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The new edition of Prison Reform Trust\u2019s Bromley Briefings, consisting of up-to-date facts on the Criminal Justice System throughout England and Wales, have now been published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five key points are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Prison Admissions<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Of the 47,000 people sent to prison in the year to June 2025, 57% had committed a non-violent offence and 32% were sentenced to serve six months or less.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Longer Prison Sentences<\/strong>\u00a0– More than three times as many people were sentenced to 10 years or more in 2024 than in 2010. For serious offences, the average prison sentence is now 69.9 months \u2014 more than two and a half years longer than in 2010.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The Growth of EDS \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>13% of the sentenced prison population are serving an Extended Determinate Sentence (EDS) and are not subject to automatic release until the end of their full custodial term.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. IPP Prisoners<\/strong>\u00a0– Despite its abolition, there are 946 people in prison serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence who have never been released. 99.6% are still in prison despite having already served their tariff and 73% of unreleased IPP prisoners have spent an additional 10 years or more in prison on top of their tariff.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Remand – \u00a0<\/strong>The number of people on remand remains at its highest level in at least 50 years, accounting for 20% of the prison population – some 18,000 people. 66% are awaiting trial, whilst the rest are awaiting sentencing. In September 2022, 32% of those on remand had been held in prison beyond the six-month custody time limit \u2014 nearly 4,600 people. 5% had been there for longer than two years \u2014 770 people. The government has subsequently said that it is too costly to provide this data.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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